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AMARYLLIPACEiE. 
divided upwards, peduncle about II inch long or 
more, perianth golden or copper-coloured, streaked 
outwardly and marked at the base within with 
reddish brown ; faucial membrane annular. Lower 
petaline and upper sepaline filaments abbreviated. 
Peduncle elongated in seeding. From Buenos 
Ayres. Varies in the depth of colour of the flower, 
and the breadth and glaucous hue of the leaf, in 
different localities. The variation of leaf seems 
permanent in the seedlings. 
V. 1. Aurea, golden. V. 2. Cuprea, coppery. V. 3. Ob- 
scura, dark, especially in the bud. V. 4. Brevi- 
limba, short-flowered, with broader leaves. V. 5. 
Parvula, small. PI. 26. f. 4. V. 6. Texana, Texan, 
with roundish obtuse segments. 
This bright-coloured Habranthus was imported from 
Monte Video in 1829, and I noted the first four varieties 
amongst the bulbs which flowered in 1830, having been par- 
celled as different by the collector. The fifth is known to me 
only by a Bonarian specimen from Tweedie, Herb. Hooker. 
The sixth was sent by Drummond from Texas, where the 
Chilian Allium Cowani has also manifested itself in the 
Northern Hemisphere. I doubt whether it is distinguish- 
able from the first variety, but I have not seen them in flower 
together. Both Andersonianus and Robustus are disposed to 
flower earlier than Gracilifolius and Versicolor. 
22 ? Andicola. — Am. Poeppig Fragm. Syn. 5. Diar. 3. 
833. Leaves linear, glaucous, smooth ; scape 6-7 
inches, glaucous, one-flowered ; spatlie approached 
to the flower, two-valved, reaching to the middle 
of the perianth ; perianth erect, near two inches 
long, subbilabiate, segments nearly equal, splendid 
violet colour ; tube 3-4 lines long, throat smooth ; 
stamens very short, deflex. Dr. Poeppig does not 
state whether there is a peduncle shorter than the 
spatlie or none, but he refers the plant to Ha- 
branthi. The perianth said to have a tendency to 
be bilabiate and the filaments to be deflex point to 
that genus ; but a sessile or subsessile germen, 
erect perianth, and very short stamens, are at vari- 
ance with that genus, and I cannot but doubt whe- 
ther it will not be found to be a Zephyranthes 
